I don't ever like to say anything negative, but really...people have been sent to GITMO for more trivial things than murdering the anthem like Klay & Popper :-) Excruciating.
Greenwell's was the only harp version that sounded like music.
Lets talk about playing it. I know this is going to expose my lack of music theory, but If I start on a 4 blow, lets say on a C harp, then there are some deep bends necessary to play it. If I start on 5(E) blow or 6(G) blow, which both sound good to me, and wind up in the same place, at least when I play it, then I need a 5 overblow, or a country tuned harp.
So, What keys would these be? I think starting on the G or E would put me in the Key of C, and starting on the 4(C) would put me in F. Though I am probably wrong.
How do you guys play it.
I know Smoky pretty well, and I could ask him, I suppose, how he did it, but he will probably forget. He used to use country tuned harps, but now he overblows. Listen to his Canned Heat cover of On the Road Again. When he recorded in originally for Smoking Classics he used a retuned harp, but Thomas Walker from here in New Orleans taught him how to overblow, and now he uses that technique, very effectively I might add.
